Air-moistening apparatus.



AIR MOXSTENING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 10, 1911.

Pafiented 1 .131228, 1914,

cam. HEINRICH rao'r'r, or annrnr, GERMANY.

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Specification of Ietters Patent.

Applicationfiled-October10,1911'. Serial No.653,857. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CARL HEINRICH Pnorr, acitizen of the German Empire, re-

siding at Rheydt, in the Province of Rhenish Prussia, Kingdom ofPrussia, Germany,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Air-MoisteningApparatus;

and I do hereby declare thefoll'owing to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains ,to make and use the same.

The' present application relates proved air-moistening apparatus.

In the case of the hitherto known air-. moistening apparatuses having ahorizontally rotating distributing disk to which the liquid is raisedfrom a liquid-containing vessel the members drawing the air by suctionare arranged above the distributing disk. The air to an imisconsequently drawn from above and is then diverted laterally spray overthe plate-' together with the liquid int-he state of shaped edge of theliquid-containing vessel. These old contrivances, however, possess thedefect that the particles of liquid which condense and become depositedon the edqe of the vessel, are carried away by and with the air which isdriven under a high pressure over said'edge, the result being that saidair is supersaturated with moisture. Consequently if such a contrivancebe set in operation in living-rooms or the like, there becomes at onceapparent the additional defect that the particles of liquid pro'ectedfrom the apparatus with the current 0 air readily injure the furnitureand walls.

.The apparatus according to the present invention consists of a newvertical air-moistening apparatus having a horizontally r0- t-atingdistributing disk, in the case of which the defects cited above areavoided.

The novelty of the apparatus consists in the members which draw t e airby suction being arranged underneath the distributing disk in theinterior oflthe cell-ring, so that the air is drawn from below upwardand is then led away together with the liquid in the form of sprayupward out of the apparatus. Consequently the air after being betweenthe disk 0 saturated with the liquid in the, form of spray does notagain come into contact with the descending particles of liquid, so thatsaid particles cannot be carried away with the air. Further, themoistened air, since it does not leave the apparatus laterally, does notdo any harm to the walls and furniture. The air might, indeed, even beled away from the apparatus through pipes, which could not be done inthe case of the old forms of aii moistening apparatus havinghorizontally rotating distributing. disks.

One embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in theaccompanying drawing,

in which?- Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a section onthe'line AA, Fig. 1.

In the drawing a designates the liquidcontaining vessel which anelectric motor driving the horizontal distributing-disk c is mounted. Onthe under surface of the disk 0 air-vanes d are arranged radially forexample, which on the disk a rotating pass over three air-shafts e whichpass through the bottom of the vessel a and terminate close under thevanes 03.

The disk 0 is surrounded in a well-known manner by a cell-ring f whichis provided with small rebound-plates g and'is secured in the exampleillustrated on the air-shafts e. The liquid is raised to thedistributing disk 0 by the aid of the pipe 2' and the rotary pump itarranged at the bottom of the vessel a, a device I; which serves toregulate the flow being inserted in the pipe 2'. The air-vanes (l drawthe air from below upward through the shafts e and force it through andthe cell-ring fwhere it becomes saturated with the liquid converted intospray by the disk 0. A cylindrical rim Z provided on the vessel aconducts upward the air charged with moisture.

What I to secure by Letters Patent is y In combination with a rotatingspraying disk, and vanes for air suction arranged in the path of thespray, means for' atomizing the latter, a vessel arranged below saiddisk and containing the entire supply of water therefor, means forraising water to the top Patented'Apr. 28, 1914.

which rests on a base'b in claim as my invention and desire of said diskand air tubes passing u through name to this specification in thepresence of tlfiefboftom a; the said vesseldanh' through: twosubscribing witnesses. t e v0 ume 0 water containe t erein an subject tothe suction ofsaid vanes, the I B H B 5 whole constituting a. compact,portable, air- Witnesses:

m0istening apparatus. v v .NUFER, In testimony whereof, I have signed myA. NUFER.

